Rape – has Sweden got it wrong?
8 February 2011 LE MONDE PARIS
"Talk about it," or in Swedish prataomdet, has become the expression of the moment. It is everywhere — on Twitter, in blogs, newspaper columns, and radio and television shows — while the debate on the sexual "grey area" or the limits of what should occur between the sheets when two people go to bed together has become a major issue in the Swedish media.
Johanna Koljonen was the first to launch the discussion. The freelance journalist who is regular contributor to cultural pages and TV shows in Sweden was talking about the Julian Assange case on Twitter on 14 December, at a time when the world’s press was focused on the extradition case against the WikiLeaks co-founder and the allegations made by two Swedish women who accused him of rape, sexual assault and coercion.
One of Johanna Koljonen’s correspondents remarked that the view in the UK was that affair was simply a legal error and the real victim was Assange himself. At 18:07 pm, Johanna Koljonen responded with a more personal message on the subject: "The fact is that I found myself in a similar situation, but I was too naive to understand that I could at least impose some limit..." The discussion continued, and half an hour later Johanna returned to the subject with this explicit admission: "In fact, I am bit shocked to find myself saying this, but it’s only now that I realise that I myself have had an experience of "sex by surprise."
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